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- kdawg December 2012
- MirandaJuly December 2012
- YoursTruly December 2012
Kids these days
My fiance teaches Latin at a weird private school in an art deco socialite mansion from the 20s. The kids are interesting...a lot of them are there on scholarship, and a lot of them are kids who did poorly in more traditional schools.
Today, a 13 year old student who is like, 4 feet tall, who probably has aspergers and who I saw play an extremely awkward guitar solo at the GSA talent show last spring just came out as "bi" to the entire school via text message.
Is this how kids do it these days?
Today, a 13 year old student who is like, 4 feet tall, who probably has aspergers and who I saw play an extremely awkward guitar solo at the GSA talent show last spring just came out as "bi" to the entire school via text message.
Is this how kids do it these days?
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was the text in Latin
At my former institution I remember there was this wonderful strange moment one of my colleagues had where he was talking about "coming out" and it turned out that a bunch of the gay students in the class basically didn't even know what that meant. They associated it with an impossibly distant bygone era, kind of like how we might think of segregation in the 50s. Studying it as a cultural-historical thing, rather than something urgent in their own lives. They were just like "I was just always gay, it wasn't a big deal. I never had to say anything."
We were blown away. Obviously these were kids from, like, super affluent liberal families in San Fran but still